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Friday, 3 February 2012

Remembering is "re-remembering"

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"Memory is endlessly creative, and at one level it functions just as imagination does... endlessly rewriting the self." (Fernyho...
Thursday, 2 February 2012

Errol Morris on truth and reenactment

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The documentary film director Errol Morris claims that he "can't know for sure" whether an interviewee is telling the truth...
Wednesday, 1 February 2012

True memory gone, illusion remains

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"This is a memory of my sophomore year of 1989, the year when I almost got killed. I don’t feel lucky for my survival, but a stron...

The Utopian Spaceship

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The social experiment "based on an initially utopian, then scientific, notion of the future: Communism" [Transmediale.de, 20...
Saturday, 21 January 2012

The corrosion of time and being "too late"

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When Tacita Dean tried to film the Chalon-sur-Saône Kodak factory in France, which had stopped producing film, she was told she had co...
Sunday, 15 January 2012

Accuracy of collective/collaborative memories

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"Memories are always being negotiated, fought over and shaped by the memories of others." (Fernyhough, 2012) We sometimes ...

Collective and public memories

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"Memory has always been a social activity... and our appetite for collective nostalgia is undiminished." (Bell, 2012) Memory...
Monday, 9 January 2012

Your present vs. future self

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Daniel Goldstein claims that "there's two heads inside one person" - cool and hot - or the present self and the future s...
Friday, 6 January 2012

GDR lost generation

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Lothar de Maizière, the last GDR prime minister, attending the Korean-German Consultation Committee on Reunification, says the South K...
Thursday, 5 January 2012

Erasing the border of art and life

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The Global Contemporary exhibition at ZKM in Karlsruhe showcases post-1989 art practices that have emerged as a result of political ch...
Wednesday, 4 January 2012

Creating Photo Opportunities

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"They linger in and as memory; as we look at them we reflect, try to make something out. Images seen from a railway carriage or ca...
Tuesday, 3 January 2012

Documentation and live imprisonment at Hohenschönhausen

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Franziska Vu's exhibition Detained [ Inhaftiert ] combines photographs with interviews of Stasi prisoners, to create an exhibition...
Sunday, 1 January 2012

UK should hand over Stasi files: poll

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Three out of four participants of the Guardian poll  said that the British government should hand over the files containing the names o...
Friday, 30 December 2011

Should UK return Stasi files to Germany?

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The Guardian is running an online poll on whether the British government should hand the East German secret police files over to German...

Postcards from lost countries

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This clip shows an interactive project due to launch on 10 Jan 2012, made from a collection of 25 postcards sent from 11 East European...
Wednesday, 28 December 2011

Fragments of Holocaust

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"I think that we can only see the Holocaust in fragments, and these fragments are individual lives and individual deaths, and this ...
Friday, 23 December 2011

Minds of North Korea

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"However he abused his long-suffering people, the fear they must now be feeling is surely real." (Taylor, 2011) Kathleen Tay...
Thursday, 22 December 2011

Locked-up memories

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Søren Lose's exhibition Relicts, on GDR-era Berlin and collective memories, was closed.  Excerpt from the Brandts website. The ...
Tuesday, 20 December 2011

"Being there but not there": In a Lonely Place

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Gregory Crewdson's photographs are "projections of a story" he might have heard, "trying to search beneath the sur...
Wednesday, 7 December 2011

Delayed images of Palast der Republik

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"The building was completely sealed," said Klapsch, "so an utter stillness lay over everything. It was a strange feeli...
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